SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) (44 U.S.C. 3501-3520), federal agencies must obtain approval from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for each collection of information they conduct or sponsor. In addition, the PRA also requires federal agencies to provide a 60-day notice in the Federal Register concerning each proposed collection of information, including each new proposed collection, each proposed extension of existing collection of information, and each reinstatement of previously approved information collection before submitting the collection to the OMB for approval. To comply with this requirement, we are publishing this notice of a proposed data collection as described below.

The OMB is particularly interested in comments that will help:

1. Evaluate whether the proposed collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the agency, including whether the information will have practical utility;

2. Evaluate the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the proposed collection of information, including the validity of the methodology and assumptions used;

3. Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected;

4. Minimize the burden of the collection of information on those who are to respond, including through the use of appropriate automated, electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or other forms of information technology, e.g., permitting electronic submissions of responses; and

5. Assess information collection costs.

Proposed Project

Improving Performance Measurement and Monitoring by CDC Programs: The Performance Measures Project (OMB Control No. 0920-1282, Exp. 06/30/2029)—Revision—Office of Policy Performance and Evaluation (OPPE), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Background and Brief Description

Each year, approximately 75% of the CDC's congressionally appropriated funding goes to extramural organizations, including state and local partners, via contracts, grants, and, most commonly, cooperative agreements. The availability of funding for grants and cooperative agreements is announced through a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO). CDC awards up to 100 new, non-research NOFOs each year (each funded for one to five years). These awards may have only a few funded recipients or more than 50 (such as when a CDC program provides funding to all states and territories).

CDC programs develop logic models for each NOFO, describing the key programmatic strategies and activities and the short, intermediate, and long-term outcomes funded recipients are expected to achieve during their period of performance. Programs develop performance measures customized to a NOFO-specific public health initiative to assess actions prescribed by the logic model with the immediate goal of monitoring progress and the long-term goal of improving performance.

Monitoring and reporting of program performance is required of any non-federal entity receiving federal funds under 45 CFR 75.342 which states; “the non-Federal entity must monitor its activities under Federal awards to assure compliance with applicable Federal requirements and performance expectations are being achieved.” Under this requested approval, CDC programs customized a sample “Recipient ( printed page 8883) Codebook Technical Specification” and a sample “Recipient Data Reporting Guide” to measure, at the local level, the desired public health outcomes of a particular public health initiative, in compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA). Individual collection requests submitted under this Generic approval will include the tailored forms and a supplementary template. CDC programs who may be developing new, non-research NOFOs or are currently collecting data under an approved NOFO are eligible to participate.

Currently, CDC programs have received OMB approval to collect performance measure data using the 0920-1282 Generic Information Collection. This Revision is requested to allow participating CDC programs to continue performance measure data collection through the remaining approval period and for additional programs to use the Generic mechanism for future performance measure data collection. This Revision reflects expanded technical assistance that the Performance and Evaluation Office (PEO) provides.

CDC requests OMB approval for an estimated 104,949 annual burden hours. Participation of respondents is voluntary. There are no costs to respondents other than their time.

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